Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to have been awarded Best Medium Talk at #MicroSeq2025! 🌟
Wonderful to see archaea receiving more attention in human microbiome research :)

💩 @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social starts us off with a comprehensive study of archaeal diversity and clinical associations in faecal #metagenomic data. Check out what kind of role these strange microbes play in human health! #MicroSeq2025 #archaea #guthealth

📣Just out: Exposure accumulation drives age-dependent disease architectures and polygenic risk scores www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very cool results: Accumulating E with age reduces heritability & PGS effects

Led by Xilin Jiang (Wellcome ECR joint w/Alkes Price) + @arundurvasula.bsky.social

Our new @natrevgastrohep.nature.com
review is now online

"Parental diet and offspring health: a role for the gut microbiome via epigenetics"

Co-authors Chaoran Yang, @mattsnelson.bsky.social &
Sam El-Osta

A fascinating area of research with lots of potential

nature.com/articles/s41...

Bet I will remember this next time my potato gnocchi swims in its tomato ancestor 😂

one cool thing about Scandinavian countries with comprehensive public health insurance is places like Denmark can do a study on… everybody and conclude that yes COVID vaccines are safe

📣📣 Cool job alert! The @bakerresearchau.bsky.social is recruiting up to 2 new PIs in Biomedical Data Science 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/85989791...

You’d join an awesome institute in an incredible city (Melbourne, Australia) as well as partnerships like with @cam.ac.uk… you’ll also get to work with me 😁

Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing article on how Australia can end HIV by 2030 if no one is left behind!

As a migrant w/o Medicare, I still hit barriers even with the privilege of an academic job. I can only imagine how much harder it is to access healthcare for migrants w/ fewer resources.

lens.monash.edu/@medicine-he...

Read the study: doi.org/10.1038/s414... - /w @katammp.bsky.social @begia.bsky.social Guilhem Sommeria-Klein, Ville Laitinen, Pyry Kantanen, @gmeric.bsky.social @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social Michael Inouye, Rob Knight, Veikko Salomaa, Aki S. Havulinna, Teemu Niiranen, @antagomir.bsky.social

Proud of our group's newest publication!

It bears repeating that the new paper showing that the U.S. has significantly higher rates of pediatric deaths than similar countries demonstrates that these deaths are primarily caused by:

Firearms
Motor vehicle crashes
Substance use
Homicide

And are driven by:
Economic and racial disparity

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Important reminder when anyone cites the infamous “most published research is false” paper… 👇

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.

I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."

Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Introducing a major upgrade to OmicsPred platform (www.omicspred.org) — a resource to enhance the accessibility and usability of genetic scores for multi-omic traits and their phenotypic associations. (1/N)

Withdrawing from the WHO undermines global health and pandemic preparedness— another disastrous decision.

This popped up on my YouTube homepage—featuring the amazing coral probiotics project by Raquel Peixoto and @alexrosado.bsky.social Huge congrats on this inspiring work! 🌊🧫Definitely worth a watch: Coral Reefs of the Chagos Islands: A Wilderness Preserved youtu.be/Cnf1Iip6dzo?...

Great news in the fight against #AMR 💊🧫: @who.int Academy launched this month! Are you prescribing antimicrobials? This course can help refine your practices!

web-staging.lxp.academy.who.int/coursewares/...

#WHOAcademy #Antimicrobials

Association of polygenic scores for neuropsychiatric traits with self-reported professions based on analysis of 420k individuals from UK Biobank and Million Veteran Program. Look at the 'arts & design' category. Artistic talent comes at a cost--a piece of your mind :)

Just joined Bluesky! Hello world! :)